Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-21
1iI 10 Your LIVER.
"a, Be No Perfectly Sound and
n t'.It5v Moral Life Without a
p'I psrfsctIy Healthy Body
Tbiuk God Fr0Wns on Us 1t Is
fb's ~ ,ba Case that Our Physical
Vi'D organism is at Fault.
,,d., Liver, the IdIers' Liver, the
o. Fup-, Liver, the Gamblers Liver
po'f'-1 geld up 10 View.

BSOU urItt Tslmage, D. D., opened the
: " At the Tabernacle this morning by
guy mt the hymn beginning:
g'as coming days oe cold and dark,
1sed not cease our singing;
i tnarfsct rest naught can nolest,
q lls sss-s golden harps are ringing.
.San explained q passage in the
% n 81. Matthew concerning the in
@p' Find Of salt that was cast out to
CIV. r.lks of, to be trodden under foot
IN The subject OF DR.. Talmage's
q I -oo WAS mTne Gospel of Health, "
tsc'ss;; ~ text from Proverbs viii, 23:
~ ]5, ~ hart strike through his liver" He
There ISIS .-,,,,o,.,o.
.rn.rstiyely small part of the Bible is
y 49, IN for texts. Most Of the passages
@l..,nture when announced at the open
~ ~ ssermons Immediately divide them
" s-os into the old discussions that we
ssrs 5ssrd from boyhood, and the effect
1 ~. "a "a soporifc. The auditor guesses
u ~. " start lust what the preacher will
y y. There are important chapters
~ verses that have never been
.a,,bed from. Much of my lifetime l
y deyoting to unlocking these gold
East. - and blasting open these quarries.
~ talk about the heart, and preach
,sovf the heart, and sing about the heart,
sT,if Won refer to the physical organ
.s,t We call the heart, it has not hslt SO
-1eh 10 do with spiritual health or dis
.,s morsl exaltarion or spiritual de-
r,sssioD. as the organ to the considera-
far of which Solomon calls us in the
yYt, when he describes sin progressing
Ga! dart strike
THROUGH HIS LIVER"
Solomon's anatomical and physiology
al discoveries were so very great that he
-. nearly 5000 years ahead Of the SCI
enlist, Of his day. He, more than 1000
ye,rs before Christ, seemed to know
.b9ut the circulation of the blood, which
Harvey discovered 1919 years after
Christ, for when Solomon in Ecclesiastes,
describing the human BODY, speaks OF
fe pitcher at the fountain, he evidently
Besns the three canals leading from the
hesrt that receive the blood like pitch
gs. When he spesks in Ecclesisstes Of
the silver cord Of life, he evidently means
The spi1al marrow, about which in our
isy Doctors Meyo, and Carpenter, and
Dalton, ana Flint, and Brown-Sequsrd
lave experimented. And Solomon re-
srded il the Bible thousands Of years
before scientists discovered It, that in
bis time the spinal cord relaxed in old
Ee, producing the tremors of hand and
=9sd: "0r the silver cord be loosed."
In the text he reveals the TACT that he
hd studied that largest gland Of the hu-
nsn system, the liver, not by the electric
Light Of the modern dissectlng- but
By the dim light of comparatively dark
sge, sud yet had seen it's important func-
ton IN the
GOD BUILT CASTLE
Of the human body; its selecting ard &C.
Ieting power, It's curious cells, its eIon-
gsted, branching tubes-a divine work
nslship in central, and right and left
LOBE, and the hepatic artery through
VI, this vital organ is like the eye Of God
IN thSt it never sleeps. Solomon knew of
Rand lad noticed either in vivsection or
pOit mortem what awful stacks Gin and
dissipation make upon it, until with the
LIST Of Almighty God it bids the body and
sou! separate, aud the one it commands
70 t1e grave and the other it sends to
judgment a jsvelIn Of retribution, not
sLan9lng OF or making slight wound,
9ul piercing IL from side to side "till the
g u. strike through the liver" Galen aid
hlppOcrsteS ascrbe to the liver the most
q Inc worlds moral depression, and the
nVla melancholy means black bile.
preach tc you this morning the gospel
VI health. In taking diagnosis CT
ne diseases Of the soul you must
aso take the diagnosis of the dis
s uses Oh the Body. AS if to recognize
JUS, one whole book of the New Tesla
asal was written by physician. Luke
I mas DOCTOR and he discourses much Of
PPllsCal Effects, and he tells of the good
SSAllAIIIan's medication of the wounds
! pouring IN oil and VINE, andIrecognizes
uusef IS q hlndrauce to hearing the
u.spsl, SO that the 5000 were fed; and
.eCOIus tne sparse diet of the prodigal
sna! nom home, and the extinguished
' '!s'islt OF the beggar by the Wayside,
-. .su Ie'S Us know IF the hemorrnsge OF
r ~ wounds OF the dying Christ and the
1 -.Seuious post-mortem resuscitation
,iau any estimate of the spiritualscondi-
Wv ASt does not include aIso an esti-
- Ta.s Ol the physical condition is incom-
t.1's e. W1en the door-keeper of Congress
o. ueau from excessive Joy because Bur
spS ,s.t Aad surrendered aE Ssratogs, and
~ up v Of Spain dropped dead st
A., ~ Jews " OF his couutry's defeat in battle,
~ nv ~ cardinal Wolsey expired as result
h sneary ! VIII IS anathema, it was
~'-Onstrated that the
A.. BODY AND SOUL
~ olauese twins and when you thrill
o,s ~ Uue with Joy or sorrow you thrill the
tey St' We might as well recognize the
n,o a.sluOus fact that there are two
bs:. .'y ioftresses in the hnman body, the
tea a' ana Inc liver; the heart, :he for
,,ess s '. ali the grs Ces, the liver the for
fss 'I : " al the furies. You may have
md . .e niled With all Municipalities,
and -, Nc eSr with sill musicsl appreciation,
bsss' NC N.! mouth with all eloquence, anG the
VITA vita VIII, Win ali Industries, and the heart
st,iLs generosities, and yet ''& dart
through the liver"
tsEs ,S. Christian people avoid the mis-
cans theY ere all wrong with God be-
soiyj.. lney suffer from depression of
tonr '.S; Many s consecrated man has
ions ~ us spiritual sky befogged, and his
plannoots heayen olotted out, and himself
Despsosu chin deep in the Slough of
.ie5Ps T Wy. and has said: "My heart is not
ssys WIN mIa Cod, and 1 think 1 must
seipo ISae a mistake, and instead of
asrE71s,c hl'd of light l am child of
suess. No onr can feel as oloomv az